This has probably been brought up before, but I'm not taking this from a moral perspective. I'm taking this one on purely from the point of view of gameplay, and the relevance of it to the game. I'm not talking Leisure Suit Larry or The Guy Game - I'm talking a game where violence is the typical modus operandi, your standard action / rpg / adventure / whatever.
Should it? Almost every Bioware game ever has had some kind of 'romance' you can pursue - and they don't appear to be slowing down.
I personally find it a bit stupid now that I'm old enough and mature enough not to care too much about sex. The first time I encountered 'sex' in a video game was Baldurs Gate II. I found the whole thing intriguing back then, downloading the patch that let you romance all the women at once. That was the most annoying patch ever - every step in a dungeon was followed by one of the random female party members chatting me up about... something. (As in real life, I often forget what the conversation was actually about)
Now I really find it annoying. I play through the full romance path in Mass Effect only to be rewarded with some flashed bare ass. And then it hits me. I just played through some programming nerd's idea of sex with an alien. I just had virtual sex with a virtual chick which was spawned from the mind of a few programmers and voice acted by some woman who looks nothing like what I'm seeing. It's as if I just pretended to have sex with somebody else's fantasy. Am I the only one that starts to get a little weirded out at this point?
I mean, I understand some story writers will contend that it's part of their story and necessary to it. But all said and done, I think any of those games could have done equally well without the sex. Perhaps more time would have been spent on gameplay fixes and prettier armor and guns and less time attempting to sculpt an alien's bare ass.
Anyone?
Should it? Almost every Bioware game ever has had some kind of 'romance' you can pursue - and they don't appear to be slowing down.
I personally find it a bit stupid now that I'm old enough and mature enough not to care too much about sex. The first time I encountered 'sex' in a video game was Baldurs Gate II. I found the whole thing intriguing back then, downloading the patch that let you romance all the women at once. That was the most annoying patch ever - every step in a dungeon was followed by one of the random female party members chatting me up about... something. (As in real life, I often forget what the conversation was actually about)
Now I really find it annoying. I play through the full romance path in Mass Effect only to be rewarded with some flashed bare ass. And then it hits me. I just played through some programming nerd's idea of sex with an alien. I just had virtual sex with a virtual chick which was spawned from the mind of a few programmers and voice acted by some woman who looks nothing like what I'm seeing. It's as if I just pretended to have sex with somebody else's fantasy. Am I the only one that starts to get a little weirded out at this point?
I mean, I understand some story writers will contend that it's part of their story and necessary to it. But all said and done, I think any of those games could have done equally well without the sex. Perhaps more time would have been spent on gameplay fixes and prettier armor and guns and less time attempting to sculpt an alien's bare ass.
Anyone?
) but sex is a natural thing, without which there would be no life on this earth. It happens to occur quite a lot and will continue to happen quite a lot and most people enjoy it and don't really give a damn whether other poeple do it (at least not half as much as they do about themselves doing it 
